Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

• Genesis 2:25

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

• Genesis 3:7-11

So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth. He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel’s presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

• 1 Samuel 19:23-24

Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.

• Isaiah 57:8

Okay, to explain the title, I wrestle in my sleep.  My watch, which measures the time I am relatively still and with a low pulse as Good sleep, is quite confused by my tossing and turning.  I have arranged my pillows so that I sleep on a wedge pillow to lift my upper body, thus cutting down on GERD at night (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disorder).  I then use two pillows, one under my head and one as a prop depending on which way I am leaning.  Note: In spite of the improvements regarding my left kidney, I am still unable to sleep on my left side, which used to be my preferred method.

But since I toss and turn, I have pillows stacked on the other side of the bed.  They come in handy if I sleep on my back.  I can rest my elbow on the stack of pillows and then my left arm can hold the prop pillow over my face so that my CPAP does not leak, maybe only 50% effective.  Funny how the CPAP is to help you sleep and it becomes the biggest reason your sleep is disturbed in that when you toss and turn, the mask starts leaking.

But lately, I have notice as I straighten the bedding in the morning that one of the pillows in the stack is either partially or fully disrobed.  It seems to want to be a nudist, someone who is not ashamed of their naked body.  Then again, the pillow never ate of the fruit and does not have a sin nature.  So, maybe it does not need to have shame.

But it became a daily thing to slide the pillow back into its pillowcase.  When the pillow was completely disrobed, I had to shake out the comforter to even find the pillowcase.

This pillow insists on nudity!  I got the bright idea that I would weight the nudist pillow down by putting a heavier pillow on top.  That way, there was nothing to cause it to disrobe, squeezed between two heavier pillows.  But no, as the photo above shows, the nudist pillow knocked the heavier pillow off the top of the stack and was one-third disrobed by the time I awoke.

This pillow is determined!  If only I could keep my mind on my desired task as well as this pillow can!!!

Okay, all joking aside.  I think the synthetic fiber of the pillowcase is slippery against the outer covering of the pillow.  Then, as I toss and turn, the two items naturally slip apart in the confusion.  So, I do not think the pillow has a mind of its own.

But I had fun while my nudist pillow amused me.  And no, I did not lust upon the nudist pillow’s naked form.  I just had to get my engineer brain thinking of the possible mechanism.

Now, I have another problem.  Do I replace the pillowcase with one that is 100% cotton?  Or do I continue having fun slipping the pillow back into its present pillowcase?

Okay, for the sake of science over entertainment, I changed to a cotton pillowcase and I have not had a problem since then. But if pillows had feelings… Let’s not go there.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.